Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 103, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 September 1924 — Page 4

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The Indianapolis Times EAKLE E. MARTIN, ECHtor-in-Cbief ROY YY. HOWARD. President FELIX F. BRUNER, Acting Editor WM. A. MAYBORN, Bus. Mgr. Member of the Scrlpps-Howard Newspaper Alliance • • • Client of the United Press, the NEA Service and the Seripps-Paine Service. • • * Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Published daily except Sunday by Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos.. 214-220 W. Maryland St, Indianapolis • • * Subscription Rates: Indianapolis—Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere—Twelve Cents a Week. • • • PHONE—MA'in 3500.

IT GET’S ’EM r“T”| LPHONSE SCHAERER, Tell City bank cashier, quit his A job> Sept. 2, 1921, without notifying his directors of the action. ** Nearly $30,000 in cash and liberty bonds, which worked in the same bank, left with him—also without notice to the directors. Alphonse proposed to spend the rest of his life in luxurious ease and instructive travel. The $30,000 were to share in this enterprise. For three years they traveled. Up and down the United States and to Cuba and to Canada they roamed. But wherever Alphonse went he found another traveling companion—uninvited and undesired —always at his elbow. That was conscience. At first he paid little attention to this intruder. Conscience wuld never be more than a slight inconvenience. Alphonse thought. But— The other day Alphonse Schaerer walked into the office of United States District Attorney Homer Elliott and surrendered. He is anxious to pay the legal penalty for his embezzlement and start over—he says. Conscience may not remonstrate loudly or wave its arms wildly when a crime is being committed. It moves slowly. • • But in the end it gets ’em. HOW DIFFERENT NOW T r_ “ HE recent death of Col. Samuel Merrill at his home in Long Beach, California, severs another link with the early days of this city. Not only was Col. Merrill horn, reared and long identified with business in Indianapolis, hut his father before him was a conspicuous figure in the early history of the State, having been treasurer of State in that far-off day when the eapitol was removed from Corydon to Indianapolis. "Which calls to mind a bit of history. The total cost of moving the eapitol from Corydon to Indianapolis was $64.55. At present that sum would scarcely suffice to pay the most obscure State employe’s traveling expenses from Indianapolis to Michigan City—while the weightier brass hats of state officialdom could just about get from the State House to the Union Station on that paltry expense allowance. No wonder the harrassed taxpayer mourns for the good old days when his tax dollar was an actual sum of money and was accorded respectful consideration.

ALAS, POOR 808 A r— "~ FTER the "Wisconsin primary, this week, and before the votes were counted, Chairman Butler, after a conference at the White House* gaye out a statement to a waiting world. Among other things he said: “The Wisconsin situation is growing more satisfactory every day.” This followed three weeks of daily stories that had been pumped out by the press agents and duly first-paged in the Common Sense newspapers to the effect that the La Follette outfit in "Wisconsin was “torn hv dissension,” “engaged in hitter internal quarrels” and ripped up the back generally. Especially had Congressman Cooper, the oldest warhorse of the crowd, been marked down for slaughter. We were told that the Coolidge people were wonderfully organized in his district and that his defeat was assured. It certainly did look tough for Boh. To start right out by being walloped in Wisconsin ! Oh. well. They have eounted the votes now. Every single one of La Follette’s State candidates won in the Republican primary. Every one of his fighting independent Progressive congressmen were renominated on the Republican ticket. He didn’t miss a trick. The majorities were bigger than ever before. Alas, poor Bob. If things get much “more satisfactory” for Mr. Butler you might as well shut up shop. SAVING SAM’S OIL Q OMEHOW or other there seemed to be an idea tha:, when the glacial hand of Mr. Coolidge fell upon the naval reserves, oil was to be “left in the ground” until a court could decide whether Secretary Fall’s deed of gift was valid. Not so. The astute special counsel have not enjoined the extraction, of oil. They have put in receivers who will account later to Uncle Sam and Messrs. Sinclair and Doheny. And the receivers are equipped with suction pumps. The receivers of the Elk Hill reserve report that they extracted enough oil in July to make a net profit of $169,000. What they extracted in Teapot Dome in July or in both places in August, the Lord only knows. Thus is the naval oil being “protected.” PIRACY along New York’s twelve-mile limit is said to be no Kidd. THE YOUTH who chose banditry as a career can report progress. He has reached prison. SCIENTISTS say our oil will be exhausted in ten years, and what will we do for secretaries of the interior then? FIVE-SIXTHS of the motor cars in existence are in the United States and, in addition, railway crossings in proportion. THE FIRST act of the acting Governor of Kentucky was to his wife a colonel in recognition, no doubt, of her commanding position as his wife. A MODERN Missourian has sued for $5,000 because he was kicked by a mule. In the old days such conduct on the part of a mule was the only thing that made Missouri life attractive. * NO SOONER does a political prophet announce that the women will elect the next President than out comes a biographer of the Democratic candidate with the announcement that Mr. Davi* in his younger days, was a horse-and-buggy sheik who could drive with one arm.

ARCTIC ICE LAYS CLAIM TO VESSELS American Girl May Be Among Those Lost in North, By H. C. CLAY', NEA Service Writer. EATTLE, Sept. 6.—The lons, cold arm of the arctic la v—— reaching down for victims and staunch ships are fighting a battle with frigid death. „ Not in years has the age-old struggle of man against the ice been waged so bitterly as in the 1924 season of the Far North. Man and his ships have been losing. An unusually vicious drive of polar ice has engulfed luckless vessels in a grinding, crushing mass and whirled them from their course to an uncertain fate upon the stretches of a frozen sea. The motor schooner Lady Kindersley, trapped in the ice pack with twenty-two men on board: the mystery of the schooner Maid of Orleans, with an American girl as passenger, and the thrilling duel of the coast guard cutter Bear are high marks in this grim log of desperate ocean adventure. May Send I’Line The Lady Kindersley, a Hudson Bay Company vessel, was caught in the ice swirl fifty miles east of Point Barrow, Alaska, and held prisoner, cut off from open water lanes and her twenty-two men in peril of starvation and freezing. The Ice baffled ail efforts of government craft to reach the unfortunate men. Rescue attempts are being continued and, if possible, an air plane will be sent on a hazardous er-

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UPPER LEFT—ALICE SUPPLEE. GIRL TEACHER. AMONG THOSE ON'BOARD THE MAID OF ORLEANS, ONE OF THE BOATS MISS ING IN NORTH ALASKAN WATERS. BELOW —THE MOTOR SCHOONER LADY KINDERSLEY.

rand in a last dash to bring out the marooned victims. The oliglit of the Maid of Orleans is unknown. Mariners have expressed grave fears for her safety and every effort is being made to ascertain her position. The schooner, which sailed from Seattle June 25, is in command of Capt. Christian Klingenberg, veteran fur trader. He is the white ruler of Victoria Land, which lies in the far reaches of the north beyond the Beaufort Sea and 1,000 miles northeast of Point Barrow. Among the nine persons on board was Miss Alice Supplee, plucky young school teacher —the first white g-lrl to venture on a voyage to the far distant island. The schooner was last heard from 150 miles north of Nome. She had been unable to land there on account of severe weather. It is now feared that she, too, has become marooned in the Ice fields. Captain Klingenberg, with two of his sons, made a spectacular “mush” with dogs across the snows to the ?nainland last spring and weeks later eached Seattle, giving the two boys their first glimpse of civilization. While in Seattle he fitted the Maid of Orleans for the northern voyage and engaged Miss Supplee as a teacher for his family. His native wife, six children and several grandchildren await his return to Victoria Land. Sweet Sixteen By HAL COCHRAN She s merely a nymph of the modern day, and she slitters through space like a streak. No worry or fret Interfere with her play, for she’s carefree, at best, so to speak. Lo, many a dainty small slipper she wears till the soles are all shiny and through. She slips on the slippers, and puts on some airs as she’s dancing a fox trot cr two. The flimsy-like dresses are fav’rites of hers, and she makes them appear at their best. Whenever a party or dansant occurs, you’ll find her quite flashily dressed. A bow in her hair that is shinglebobbed neat, adds its touch to the spirit of joy. A picture that artists would figure a treat; self-confident, cheerful and coy. ,-And who is this nymph who is bubbling in youch; of care-freest living the queen? She’s only a modern young lady, in truth; America's ehild —Sweet Sixteen! (Copyright, 1924, NLA Service, Inc.)

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Tom Sims Says The Prince of Wales’ visit to America during Leap Year proves he is the bravest man in the world. In Alexandria, La., two, women fought over a man with knives, and he probably wasn’t worth it. YVe would hate to be Coolidge and have two other men trying so hard to get the house where we live. Dawes may never be sworn in, but a preacher in Florida has cussed him out. Utah grocer asks divorce because she threw eggs at him, pleading, of course, that she just egged him on. Clothes will be back In style again in a few weeks, much to the disgust of bathing beach queens. Fall and the annual yarn about squirrels storing golf balls for nuts are both due Sept. 23. The trouble with losing a fortune is you can't get anybody to help you find another one. Everybody knows exactly how to raise children except the people who are raising them. All the world is a stage on which there are many trap doors. The violin is almost as hard to learn to play os poker. The harvest moon will make many an alleged woman hater see tilings in an entirely different light. Auto fenders don’t know anything about the law. What the country needs as much as anything else is half-hour parking limits on country lanes. Trouble with a political job is your feelings get hurt when you lose it and have to go to work. First thing you know it won’t be very long before Christmas again.

In New York By STEVE HANNAGAN NEW Y'ORK, Sept. 6.—Lower Fifth Ave. at noon. New York Is almost human. Shop girls taking a stroll after a hasty lunch actually smile. Madison Square thronged with lunch hour loungers. It is working people's hour on the avej nue. YVindow shoppers. Stenographers peering at the display win | dow finery of shops they dare not enter. The price of a dress would pay their living expenses for months. Groups on corners discussing questions of the day. A community interest on a chilly street. An urchin whistling. One haughty woman. Every one laughs at her. She seems out of place on the street that belongs to her. But it is only noon. In three hours it wilj be hers. Then the shop girls will be out of place. In the evenings they sneak from their work to their home. At that hour the avenue is aglitter with the tinsel of aristocracy. Expensive limousines with liveried chauffeurs and footmen. Foppish men. High hats, monocles, white spats,* frock coats, and expressions. Monkeys on a string. Human lap dogs for doting womanhood. At the stroke of 6 o'clock the shades of display windows in exclusive shops are lowered. Gazes of the hoi polloi are not wanted. The finery displayed is for other ey-es. • • • Bathers on Long Island are encountering anew peril. And it isn’t sharks. Swimming around in the moonlight the other eveninig a bather fractured his arm on a case of Scotch whisky floatinig in the surf. Five other derelict cases were located in the vicinity. Since then there has been a mad search for rum row flotsam. * * * Richard Englicht is 36, weighs 210 pounds and is six feet 6 inches tall. He dislikes women but loves babies He found a babe abandoned in a hedge the other night. Now he wants to adopt it. Englicht is a stone mason. A Thought Go be merciful to me a sinner.— Luke 18:13. * * * True repentance is to cease from sin.—St. Afribrose.

EQUIPMENT OF CHINESE IS ANCIENT Some Soldiers Use Pikes and Curved Broadswords in War, By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS, Times Foreign Editor. C'"j HTNESE armies are the most amazing, most nondescript and the most paradoxical bodies of troops in the world. They detest war but fight sill the time. Combined, they are numerically the earth’s mightiest aggregation—some estimates place them as high as 2,000,000 —yet they can't lick anybody. Their system calls for more military training schools than can be found in the rest of the world all put together, yet both officers and men are woefully deficient in the science of war. Some are equipped with modern guns and airplanes. Others have only pikes, antiquated, curved broadswords, muzzle-loading Rhotguns or even match and flint locks. A few leaders have studied tactics and strategy under Japanese, French and other capable instructors and can calculate to a nicety trajectory and effect of bullet and shell. Some dose their soldiers with magic pills before battle to make them proof against anything from bayonet thrusts to 42-centimeter projectiles. All Wear Stars All soldiers, from marshal to lowliest recruit, wear stars on their shoulder straps. Uniforms are partly of foreign design and partly native, these being of cheap cotton, stuffed and quilted. Rifles are mostly out. of date Japanese, Russian and German makes or Chinese copies, principally Mannliehers, Mausers, early Meiji and Murata weapons. Chinese machine guns are largely obsolete models purchased from western powers. Some are more dangerous to their crews than to the enemy. Hotchkiss, "German Pack," Rex and Japanese air-cooled models are chiefly seen. Some of the pr >- vineial war lords turn out these weapons for themselves, but as often as not fitter antiquated types. Two years ago there were only 1,394 machine guns in ail China, but the various tuchuns have no doubt greatly increased the number since At that time the country boasted only 3.076 guns of all kinds and calibers, many of these out of date when Napoleon lost Waterloo. Pled and mountain guns, however, are now being turned out by the Shanghai, Hanyang, Honan and Canton arsenals. The most popular models are the Krupp 77. Gruson f.7 and 75, Arisaka (Japanese) 75 and SohneiderCruesot (French) 75 mlllmetors. Some "poms poms,” or Hotchkiss 37 millmeter gins, are also In use. I lcnty of Powder Coast artillery is practically all Krupp. but is from thirty to thirtvfive years old. Some is in fairlv good condition and there is plenty of powder. They ran shoot, even if the shells go neither far nor straight. Army officers are divided into three cLasses. First class are generals, lieutenant generals nnd major generals. There is no brigadier general, a major general’s command being a brigade. Second class officers are colonels, lieutenant colonels and majors, while company officers are of the third ciass First ciass officers wear gold shoulder straps with three, two or one star, second class, two gold and one silver line with three, two or one ctar; third class, two silver lines and one gold, with stars. Sergeants and corporals wear cloth shoulder straps with a thin gold line v ith three, two or one star, privates plain cloth with stars according to class Ch.nu has few airplanes. While the exact number is not known, t here are probably not more than two dozen in the whole country. These are chiefly Handley-Page and Vickers-Vimys commercial types converted. Cavalry likewise is not numerous and very poor. The "horses" are usually the vicious little Manchurian or Mongolian ponies, and the rider’s feet all but drag on the ground.

Tongue Tips W. L. BRYAN, President Indiana University: "Diseases and infirmities exercise a vast control over mankind.” Rev. E. S. Wiers, New Jersey: “We cannot hope for the building of a kingdom by morons.” Judge Sabath, Chicago, to derelict alimony payer: “You are like a good many modern husbands. Y'ou would rather pay 19 cents for a gallon of gasoline than the same amount, or less, for a quart of milk for your child.” Kathleen Norris, novelist: “Two million of rich Americans will go to Europe this year, and of those probably one million will be mothers with marriageable daughters.” Prof. H. D. Menslng, Concordia College, Ft. Wayne, Ind.; “Do not be deceived by those who prate of everlasting peace while there is peace and preach hatred in war time.” Family Fun Speaking of Operations Here she was at last, properly shrouded in a barber’s chair, a trifle pale, but grimly determined. “How shall I cut it?” asked the barber, callously- display-ing his full kit of gleaming instruments. The patient gasped at them in fascinated horror, hesitated, then qua vered: “I think you’d better give me gas.”—Houston Post. The Minister’s Look “I can't help thinking that the clergyman looked very solemn when he was marrying us.” “YVeH, my dear, you must remember, he’s a married man himself.” — Boston Transcript. Too Slow for Sister “What would you say if I threw you a kiss?” “I’d aay you were the laziest guy I ever knew.”—Film Fun.

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DISTR UST AND HATE RULE TOWN One Commandment Is Suspended in Bloody Herrin, By GEORGE BRITT NEA Service Writer. _ -iERKIN, 111., Sept. 6. —"There I—4 ain’t no ten commandments, ] * * i and the best is like the ! worst," here in Williamson County. | There are only nine command- | ments—the one which says, "Thou | shalt not kill," is going by default, i And to the extent of toting guns i and living in keen hatred, distrust l and fear of the other side, the best ! and worst are indistinguishable. Says Sheriff George him- | self charged with murder in a war- ] rant obtained by the Ku-Klux Klan : following the latest wholesale street I slaying: | "It was either fight or run, and I'd ■ !>e charged with murder anyhow. So ! with three guns on me, I stood my j ground just for the pleasure of shooting." Externally Herrin is the conven* j tional brick-paved, progressive midI western town. Children skip along I the street, young couples sit on door j steps after supper. Son lights at Father’s Side Below this surface Is the spirit of guerilla warfare, of border raids, of medieval mystic murder. These bits of evidence to support the conception—- “ Little George" Oalligan, 16-year-old son of the sheriff, at an age when boys in most towns are getting interested in slick hair and girls, battling for life with a rifle, at his father’s side. State’s' Attorney Delos Duty making a formal request to the military commander for a search of two churches said to he used as arsenals and fortresses for Klansmen— Hundreds of outstanding permits to carry concealed weapons, and hip pockets bulging in every street corner crowd — Machine guns manned by guarding the Marion jail, the Herrin hospital and other stronghojds— Two rival chiefs of police in Herrin, claiming conflicting authority from different sources and divided in enforcement of what law there is— Score Is Counted * An acknowledged Klan leader grimly counting the score with the words, "So far, they’ve got four of us. Well, there’s 1,500 more, and by the time they get them all, there will be 3,000 and the women will join in and we’ll stay ahead." Y'et Herrin takes no pride in its bloodshed, each side disclaiming responsibility, telling irreconcilable accounts of the same events. Law enforcement is the slogan of each embattled force. Peaceful Intentions are claimed as exclusive to each. Each beseeches deliverance.

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Ask The Times You can gel an answer to any queatioa oZ tact or information by writing to the Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau, 1322 New Yura Ave . Washington. D. C. Inclosing 2 cents ia rtamps for reply Medical, c gal and marital advice cannot be given, nor can ext-nded research he undertaken. A" other qui-stiuns will receive a persona! reply Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are coniideatia) —Editor Which States have the best climate for one suffering from pulmonary’ tuberculosis? Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico are usually recommended. It is quite impossible, however, to give advice concerning climate unless one is perfectly familiar with the nature of the disease and the stage it has reached. It is best to consult a physician, who. after thorough diagnosis of the particular case, will be able to give intelligent advice as to whether change of climate will be advisable. What day did Nov. 2. 1870 fall on? Wednesday. What is the proper way to spell the name of the capital city of Cuba? Havana is the proper English spelling; Habana is the proper Spanish spelling. Why is a good crop called a “bumper crop?" “Bumper" means a glass or goblet filled to the brim, drunk as a toast —thus a crop to which a toast could be drunk is a “bumper" crop Can you give me the address of the Torrens Land Title League? 15 Park Row, New Y'ork, N. Y'. Who was Disraeli? Disraeli (the Earl of Beaconfield) was an English statesman and writer during the reign of Queen Victoria. He was prime minister and a Conservative in politics. When was Richard Croker mayor of New Y'ork? Never; he was the “boss" of Tammany Hall. What is the origin of the expression. "United we stand, divided we fall?” This is .from a poem by George P. Morris, called "The Flag of Our Union." It was probably' inspired by John Dickinson in “The Liberty Song of 1768,” in which he wrote: “Then join in hand, grave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.” What is a certified check? One bearing on its face a certificiation by the cashier of the bank on which it is drawn showing that (he signature is genuine and that the drawer of the check has funds sufficient to cover it. What kind of animals make the most efficient food? Considering the amount of human food produced by the animal from the feed raised on an acre of land, the dairy cow leads all others. Next in food production from the yield on an acre, comes hog. For what period during the year is Yellowstone National Park open to tourists? From June 20 to Sept. 20.

SATURDAY, SEPT. 6, 1924.

PRINCE FOR ENTENTE CORDIALE Closer Contact Between England and United States Seen, Times Washington Bureau, 12,22 Xew York Ave. 1T773 ASHIXGTON, Sept. 6.—An j\)u| entente cordiale between the i T J United States and Great Britain is more than likely' within the next few years. The Prince of Wales, now paying his second visit to this side of the ! Atlantic, is already planning a third. This he expects to make in his official capacity and hopes at that time to tour pretty much the whole country, further cementing the ties between Britain and America. To Prince Edward's intimates it is known that his chief ambition in the line of statesmanship is to do everyj thing he can to bring about the | greatest possible unification of all the English-speaking peoples. In such unity, he believes, lies the world's best guarantee of peace. The presence in America of millions of citizens of Irish descent for decades operated as a check to Anglo-American intimacy. The blt- ! ter struggle for "home rule” constantly going on in Ireland and the recurring charges of English oppression incident to this struggle prevented complete harmony between the two countries. Ireland Now Free Today Ireland is a free state, with her own President, cabinet, army, parliament and everything. Only : the thinnest of threads now tie her to Britain. Nothing further is to be gained by' American politicians twisting the lion's tail to catch "the Irish vote,” for, with very few ex ceptions, t lie Irish in this country now feel England has at last done the right thing. The biggest stumbling-block in the way of a rapproachement between the English-speaking peoples, therefore, has been removed, and relations should naturally- improve. Edward VII, grandfather of the present Prince of YVales, has been taken as the Prince's model. King Edward inspired the entente cordiale between England and Frhnee in 1904, three years after he came to the throne. The grandson hopes to be instrumental in bringing about an “entente fraternelie” between ail the elements forming the British empire and America. Does Not Mean Alliance An “entente,” of course, is not to be confused with an alliance. In diplomacy the term signifies merely * a close friendship between nation* without any formal agreements to •do this, that or the other under given conditions, either written or otherwise. v , It is becomingi increasingly obvious that the 170,000,000 Englishspeaking peoples of the world are the greatest steadying influence on earth and that discord among them would not only- bring about their own downfall, but would be a calamity to civilization as a whole. Thus, while alliances seem to be contrary to American tradition, nothing is to be lost and every-thing to he gained by cultivatinig the maxi- | mum cordiality between the United i States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Ireland and the | other units of the English-speaking I world.

Nature Great numbers of tiny dots on your fern leaves are not bug marks, but the seed exits. Listen closely to the shrill songs of the locusts and grasshoppers and you'll learn that usually they are measured. When you suddenly hear among them a quick note of alarm, you'll know that a wasp is after that locust, intending to paralyze him and lay him in the nest as living food for a coming waspling. Daughter Is In “Is Miss Flora in?” “Yes. but the poor girl has had to went to bed while her bathin' suit’s bein’ washed.” —American Legion Weekly.